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4 Stocks Pushing The Transportation Industry Higher

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All three major indices are trading down today with the
Dow Jones Industrial Average (
^DJI) trading down 22 points (-0.2%) at 14,429 as of Tuesday, March 19, 2013, 12:45 PM ET. The NYSE advances/declines ratio sits at 1,094 issues advancing vs. 1,811 declining with 142 unchanged.

The Transportation industry currently sits down 0.2% versus the S&P 500, which is down 0.4%. A company within the industry that increased today was
Delta Air Lines (
DAL), up 1.2%.

TheStreet Ratings group would like to highlight 4 stocks pushing the industry higher today:

4.
Ryanair Holdings (
RYAAY) is one of the companies pushing the Transportation industry higher today. As of noon trading, Ryanair Holdings is up $1.08 (2.7%) to $41.41 on light volume Thus far, 139,030 shares of Ryanair Holdings exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 387,600 shares. The stock has ranged in price between $41.08-$41.57 after having opened the day at $41.18 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $40.33.

Ryanair Holdings plc, together with its subsidiaries, provides scheduled-passenger airline services in Ireland, the United Kingdom, continental Europe, and Morocco. Ryanair Holdings has a market cap of $11.4 billion and is part of the services sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 15.7, below the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 17.6% year to date as of the close of trading on Monday. Currently there are 2 analysts that rate Ryanair Holdings a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and 2 rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates Ryanair Holdings as a
buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, solid stock price performance, compelling growth in net income, notable return on equity and largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company shows weak operating cash flow. Get the full
Ryanair Holdings Ratings Report now.